India Systems Development Lab (ISDL)

Evolving IT Infrastructure for

Cognitive Era & Cloud

Technology Areas

Processor Design and Development

ISDL designs high performance microprocessors that define IBM’s Power and z Systems. These extremely
complex processors, with over
5 billion transistors on a chip and operating in a
3-5 GHz frequency range in deep nanometer technologies, require continuous innovation
in all areas including technology, design automation, verification, circuit design and system characterization.
In conjunction with the co-located firmware, operating system and application teams, engineers
are tasked with delivering a fully integrated solution, the likes of which drive the IBM Watson,
IBM’s Cognitive System (built exclusively on Power processors), and the ultra-reliable mainframe
systems that form the backbone of today’s banking and financial industry. Along with its industry
and academic partners from the OpenPOWER consortium, IBM’s Systems division continues to enhance
and re-invent its product offerings to enable Cloud and Cognitive businesses.

Operating systems

Linux - The Linux Technology Center (LTC) at ISDL engages with the open source
community to make Linux better and enable Linux across all IBM platforms including IBM Power and
z Systems. Apart from the Linux kernel, the team also closely works and regularly contributes to
other open source projects such as QEMU, Libvirt, Open Stack and OPAL. The team is also engaged
on upcoming technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Clear Containers and OSv. LTC engineers collaborate
with the larger community by participating in conferences such as LinuxCon Australia, Kernel Summit,
DockerCon, OpenStack Summits, and Linux Plumbers, among others.

AIX - The
AIX® operating system is the leading enterprise UNIX Operating System which runs
on IBM Power systems. ISDL is involved in the architecture, design, development, performance engineering
and quality assurance of AIX. AIX teams develop core OS components including base OS commands and
libraries, kernel, networking, security, device drivers etc. This team also plays a significant
role in design and development of enterprise software in virtualization, high availability and
clustering technologies.

Processor Design and Development

ISDL designs high performance microprocessors that define IBM’s Power and z Systems. These extremely
complex processors, with over
5 billion transistors on a chip and operating in a
3-5 GHz frequency range in deep nanometer technologies, require continuous innovation
in all areas including technology, design automation, verification, circuit design and system characterization.
In conjunction with the co-located firmware, operating system and application teams, engineers
are tasked with delivering a fully integrated solution, the likes of which drive the IBM Watson,
IBM’s Cognitive System (built exclusively on Power processors), and the ultra-reliable mainframe
systems that form the backbone of today’s banking and financial industry. Along with its industry
and academic partners from the OpenPOWER consortium, IBM’s Systems division continues to enhance
and re-invent its product offerings to enable Cloud and Cognitive businesses.

Firmware

ISDL teams design and develop firmware for enterprise servers (Power and z Systems). These are high-end
systems primarily used by enterprise clients across industries, such as Banking, Insurance, Airline,
Education, Enterprise Computing and Cloud Enablement. Teams are involved in developing state-of-the-art
Firmware & Systems software for high speed input/output (IO) adapters for storage, networking,
and next generation IO virtualization.

Operating systems

Linux - The Linux Technology Center (LTC) at ISDL engages with the open source
community to make Linux better and enable Linux across all IBM platforms including IBM Power and
z Systems. Apart from the Linux kernel, the team also closely works and regularly contributes to
other open source projects such as QEMU, Libvirt, Open Stack and OPAL. The team is also engaged
on upcoming technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Clear Containers and OSv. LTC engineers collaborate
with the larger community by participating in conferences such as LinuxCon Australia, Kernel Summit,
DockerCon, OpenStack Summits, and Linux Plumbers, among others.

AIX - The
AIX® operating system is the leading enterprise UNIX Operating System which runs
on IBM Power systems. ISDL is involved in the architecture, design, development, performance engineering
and quality assurance of AIX. AIX teams develop core OS components including base OS commands and
libraries, kernel, networking, security, device drivers etc. This team also plays a significant
role in design and development of enterprise software in virtualization, high availability and
clustering technologies.

Storage

Data is the world’s new natural resource. How data is stored and leveraged by an organization plays a very big role in defining
its success. The storage team in India leads the worldwide development roadmap for key features
for IBM Storage Systems that cater to storage protocols, object storage, parallel file systems,
disaster recovery, software defined storage, storage virtualization, hybrid cloud, and storage
security, to mention a few. Several storage capabilities of great importance are architected, designed
and developed by engineers in India. The team here is also responsible for quality, performance
and support for worldwide customers for capabilities developed from India.

Ecosystem Enablement

The Independent Software Vendors (ISV) team at ISDL is responsible for building innovative system
solutions with IBM scale-out server and storage products, working with ISVs and Open Source technologies.
Developers in this team specialize in designing software solutions and define best practices to
develop wide range of technologies like NoSQL Databases, Redis, MongoDB, Hadoop, Apache Spark and
other key open source technologies.

Storage

Data is the world’s new natural resource. How data is stored and leveraged by an organization plays a very big role in defining
its success. The storage team in India leads the worldwide development roadmap for key features
for IBM Storage Systems that cater to storage protocols, object storage, parallel file systems,
disaster recovery, software defined storage, storage virtualization, hybrid cloud, and storage
security, to mention a few. Several storage capabilities of great importance are architected, designed
and developed by engineers in India. The team here is also responsible for quality, performance
and support for worldwide customers for capabilities developed from India.

Ecosystem Enablement

The Independent Software Vendors (ISV) team at ISDL is responsible for building innovative system
solutions with IBM scale-out server and storage products, working with ISVs and Open Source technologies.
Developers in this team specialize in designing software solutions and define best practices to
develop wide range of technologies like NoSQL Databases, Redis, MongoDB, Hadoop, Apache Spark and
other key open source technologies.

Processor Design and Development

ISDL designs high performance microprocessors that define IBM’s Power and z Systems. These extremely
complex processors, with over
5 billion transistors on a chip and operating in a
3-5 GHz frequency range in deep nanometer technologies, require continuous innovation
in all areas including technology, design automation, verification, circuit design and system characterization.
In conjunction with the co-located firmware, operating system and application teams, engineers
are tasked with delivering a fully integrated solution, the likes of which drive the IBM Watson,
IBM’s Cognitive System (built exclusively on Power processors), and the ultra-reliable mainframe
systems that form the backbone of today’s banking and financial industry. Along with its industry
and academic partners from the OpenPOWER consortium, IBM’s Systems division continues to enhance
and re-invent its product offerings to enable Cloud and Cognitive businesses.

Firmware

ISDL teams design and develop firmware for enterprise servers (Power and z Systems). These are high-end
systems primarily used by enterprise clients across industries, such as Banking, Insurance, Airline,
Education, Enterprise Computing and Cloud Enablement. Teams are involved in developing state-of-the-art
Firmware & Systems software for high speed input/output (IO) adapters for storage, networking,
and next generation IO virtualization.

Operating systems

Linux - The Linux Technology Center (LTC) at ISDL engages with the open source
community to make Linux better and enable Linux across all IBM platforms including IBM Power and
z Systems. Apart from the Linux kernel, the team also closely works and regularly contributes to
other open source projects such as QEMU, Libvirt, Open Stack and OPAL. The team is also engaged
on upcoming technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Clear Containers and OSv. LTC engineers collaborate
with the larger community by participating in conferences such as LinuxCon Australia, Kernel Summit,
DockerCon, OpenStack Summits, and Linux Plumbers, among others.

AIX - The
AIX® operating system is the leading enterprise UNIX Operating System which runs
on IBM Power systems. ISDL is involved in the architecture, design, development, performance engineering
and quality assurance of AIX. AIX teams develop core OS components including base OS commands and
libraries, kernel, networking, security, device drivers etc. This team also plays a significant
role in design and development of enterprise software in virtualization, high availability and
clustering technologies.

Storage

Data is the world’s new natural resource. How data is stored and leveraged by an organization plays a very big role in defining
its success. The storage team in India leads the worldwide development roadmap for key features
for IBM Storage Systems that cater to storage protocols, object storage, parallel file systems,
disaster recovery, software defined storage, storage virtualization, hybrid cloud, and storage
security, to mention a few. Several storage capabilities of great importance are architected, designed
and developed by engineers in India. The team here is also responsible for quality, performance
and support for worldwide customers for capabilities developed from India.

Ecosystem Enablement

The Independent Software Vendors (ISV) team at ISDL is responsible for building innovative system
solutions with IBM scale-out server and storage products, working with ISVs and Open Source technologies.
Developers in this team specialize in designing software solutions and define best practices to
develop wide range of technologies like NoSQL Databases, Redis, MongoDB, Hadoop, Apache Spark and
other key open source technologies.